country rock

Definition of country rock

1: rock music containing elements of country music

2geology: the rock in which a mineral deposit or intrusion is enclosed
Near the edge of an intrusion, where magma has already been cooled against the surrounding country rock, this happens fairly slowly.— Robert Wichman

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